Tinker

Tinker is an open-source tool to help people collaborate on code. It can also be found at https://tinker.io/

Installing Tinker

Tinker requires:

Ruby 1.9+ && gem
Node.js && npm

$ git clone https://github.com/chielkunkels/tinker.git ~/projects/tinker
$ cd ~/projects/tinker
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ gem install bundler
$ bundler install
$ mysql -u user -p tinker < schema.sql
$ cp config-sample.yml config.yml

At this point, you'll want to crank open your editor of choice and modify config.yml. A sample config could look something like this:

urls:
  client: 'http://localhost:9393/'
  sandbox: 'http://localhost:9394/'

db: 'mysql2://user:password@localhost/tinker'
ga_code: 'UA-29044087-1'

Running locally with thin

Tinker is written with Sinatra, which is written on top of Rack, so any kind of Rack-compatible server should work.

Locally, I run Tinker on Thin, so that's what I'll be using in this example.

$ thin -p 9393 -e development -P tmp/pids/tinker-client.pid -d -D start
$ thin -p 9394 -e development -P tmp/pids/tinker-sandbox.pid -d -D start

The client interface can now be found at http://localhost:9393/ and the sandbox at http://localhost:9394/

Compiling the css

$ npm install -g less
$ cd ~/projects/tinker/
$ lessc ./src/less/client.less > ./public/tinker.client.css
$ lessc ./src/less/embed.css > ./public/tinker.embed.css

Compiling the javascript

$ npm install -g wrapup
$ cd ~/projects/tinker/
$ wrup -r ./src/js/client.js --output ./public/tinker.client.js
$ wrup -r ./src/js/embed.js --output ./public/tinker.embed.js

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